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Remember the Ps to keep everything safe
Its going to be cold again tonight. Then a big storm will hit again, yes it is another atmospheric river. Be prepared and remember your 4 Ps: People, Pets, Plants and Pipes.
Leash Law Advocates of Santa Cruz County
Listed under: Animals
Learn what's getting into Californians’ lungs and why it matters.
How the California mental health crisis emerged out of the state’s history of deinstitutionalization and laws designed to protect the mentally ill, as well as the communities around them.
Almost one million California residents are forced to drink from contaminated water supplies, or pay for bottled water. Economic inequality makes the crisis worse. What is the state doing to fix it?
Life expectancy in California exceeds all but three other states, but how long you live depends on which county you live in. They're not all equal. Why? The answer may lie in political policies.
California has historically been ahead of the rest of the country in expanding the legal right to abortion services. Here’s what state laws say today, and how we got here.
The pesky mosquito can be deadly as well as annoying. Here’s how local governments in California have been waging war on mosquitoes for more than a century.
California will soon add a new emergency hotline service with the number 988. Here’s the story behind that new service, and the original 911 number.
Since long before the COVID-19 pandemic, states have possessed broad authority to protect public health, even to suspend laws and commandeer private property. Here’s why, and how it works.
From KSQD...
On this episode of Talk of the Bay host PK Hattis is joined by nurses from Dominican Hospital who staged a picket last week in protest of chronic staffing shortages and a lack of investment from hospital ownership Dignity Health and parent company CommonSpirit Health.
From Press Banner...
In the three years since Mateo Deihl took his life, after experiencing unkind treatment while attending the school, a student-led Hope Squad was established, initiatives to stamp-out racism and bullying were launched, and $1 million was secured from the federal government for a campus Wellness Center—the first of its kind in Santa Cruz County.
From The Mercury News...
From Santa Cruz Local...
Santa Cruz County health officers said bird flu has not shown up in the county, but residents should take precaution.
From Lookout Local...
From The Pajaronian...
One day after a group of Santa Cruz County residents collected soil samples from the areas impacted by the Jan. 16 battery storage facility fire at the Moss Landing Power Plant to test for heavy metals, a San Jose State University Professor released the results of a study confirming their suspicions.
From Local News Matters...
The Department of Pesticide Regulation’s (DPR) held a public hearing Jan. 16 at the National Steinbeck Center in Salinas to address a new draft regulation for Telone, a pesticide also known by the chemical name 1,3-dichloropropene.
From CalMatters...
The California Department of Pesticide Regulation will present details of a pesticide proposal and accept public comments at two more hearings this month.
As local governments try to stretch their budgets to accommodate a new wave of mental health cases, a new program is trying to shift the emergency response from uniformed officers to trained mental health counselors.
From Santa Cruz Sentinel...
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